Improvement in fastenings for bottle-stoppers



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PATENT EEIOE.

HIRAM DEWEY, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN FASTENINGS FOR BOTTLE-STOPPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 122,579, dated January 9, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HIRAM T. DEWEY, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Fastenings for Bottle-Oorks; and the following is declared to be a correct description of the same.

This fastening is especially adapted to the corks of champagne-bottles, Wine-bottles, and other bottles for containing efi'ervescing liquids; and this fastening occupies very little space and does not interfere With the Wrapper of foil usually applied to such liquids to entirely exclude the atmospheric action. I make use of a plate of metal cut out or formed With two straps on one side and one on the other of a central ring that rests upon the cork, the ends of these straps being bent to receivethe Wire that passes around the neck. By this construction the fastening can be applied to the cork While the latter is being held in place by the driver or presser that is employed to force the cork into the bottle; and said fasten ing is smooth and projects from the cork and neck so little that it does not interfere with the cap or Wrapper of foil.

In the drawing, Figure 1 represents the fastening, of sheet metal, laid out flat and ready for use. Figs.2 and 3 are side and edge views of this fastening as applied to the neck of a bottle.

The sheet-metal fastening is made with the ring a, arms or straps b and c o, the incision between the straps o o allowing the ring portion to be passed around the driver or presser d while the saine is resting upon the cork e and holding the same into the neck j' ofthe bottle. The ends of the straps b and c c are turned up to form lips for receiving the binding-Wire that is passed around the neck after the straps b and c o have been bent down to the sides of the neck, as seen in Figs. 2 and 3.

I do not claim a sheet-metal ring With arms to hold a plug into a bottle, as this could not be applied to a cork While held into the bottle v by a presser or driver, the ring being solid.

I claim as my invention- The sheet-metal bottle-cork fastening made of the ring a, arms b and o o, and an incision or separation in the ring a between the arms o o, as and for the purposes specified.

Signed by me this 27th day of November, A. D. 1871.

Witnesses: HIRAM T. DEWEY.

GEO. T. PINOKNEY, GHAs. H. SMITH. (1) 

